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RPS Blood Bowl Awards - Winter 2012 - Nominations

Alrighty, let's get some nominations in. With a view to start a full spectrum of awards next year, we can still have a look back and pick some of the best bits of 2012!

So how will this work?

Below are the categories for consideration. There are a few less categories than discussed in the other thread, but that is simply because we are trying this out for the first time. Once I've received a fair number of entries (say at least 2-3) for each, we'll have a round of voting. The voting will be a hidden ballot (probably using Google Docs) and the winners will be announced in the new year.

Rules for Nomination:

Coaches nominated must be RPS forum members.

Teams and players nominated must belong to an RPS coach.

Matches nominated must involve at least one RPS coach.

If you would rather nominate privately, send me a PM. Nominations will be presented as anonymous unless otherwise suggested in this thread.

You can nominate for each category as many times as you like.

You do not have to nominate something for every category.

You cannot nominate yourself, unless otherwise noted.

Here are the categories for this year's awards...

PART A:---

Most Feared Team
Whether they're violent or just too damn good at what they do, which RPS side do you dread facing most? You don't have to have actually faced someone to be eligible to nominate them. The fear is enough!Nominations:
- 3 Feet High and Rising -
- Dead Can-Can -
- Dwarven Giants -
- Elf Harm -
- Gears of Mork -
- Pink Patisserie Panthers -
- Sunny Day Snotling Creche -

Play of the Year
The award for the best (or luckiest) feat on the pitch. Nominations in this category require the game in question is uploaded to BBManager (or be a FUMBBL match).In this category you may nominate your own play.

Match of the Year
Which match was truly spectaular? Was it because f the high scores, the run of luck, the incredible nuffling or the appalling violence? As above, nominations in this category require the game in question is uploaded to BBManager (or be a FUMBBL match), and you may nominate your own match too.

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PART C:---

Wizard of the Year
Coaches nominated for this award should have displayed the smartest tactical skills this year.

Cheerleader of the Year
The award for the funniest, most entertaining coach on our forum this year.

MVP of the Year
The award for the coach who showed great sportsmanship, a positive/amusingly cynical attitude, got involved in discussions and generally went beyond the level of simple participation in the game itself.

Yes indeed I would :)
I'll take another look at my old foes this week, and see if I can identify the player or players I've hated the most. Laneford's ag5 catch pass block one comes to mind: the bugger picked off my 2-3, make-it-look-like-it-was-at-least-close touchdown, allowing Laneford to score a final time for a humiliating 1-4.

I nominate Jiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim for cheerleader of the year, for the match reports and advent calendar. I demand that, should he win, he absolutely not post a picture of himself dressed as a cheerleader.

My cheerleader vote goes to Weasel. As a great cynic myself his cynicism and verbal jousting while corralling the RPS flock into their divisional pens amuses me no end.

I'll have to do a spot of research for feared teams/players as I can't remember too well some of my open opponents but certainly on the DoD side of things Snoozers team scares the bejesus out of me which is lucky as I've had to face him in consecutive seasons!

For MVP of the year I think Cyber deserves a nomination. Playing multiple teams in the Open to help keep the competition running smoothly (and I believe the DoD too?), always willing to be part of a debate and taking his goblin beatings like a man.

Play of the year: I was spectacularly pleased by my second equalising touchdown against Zoraster so I'll go for that. I think this is going to be a horrible category to moderate though, you could go for Match of the year instead?

Most Feared Team: Drawlien's 'zons in the Open, the Patisserie Panthers. I was absolutely destroyed 3-0 the first time I played them, spent the rest of the year scheming, planning and plotting, buying mighty blow and tackle and cackling madly, and just scraped a 2-2 draw. They're absolute fucks.

Most Feared Player: Fuckin' Billy Big Balls

Wizard of the year: Jolima. He's really really good, I swear he could win the divisions with a halfling team if he put his mind to it. Zoraster is a close runner-up purely because I don't have to play him as often. As is mrpier.

Cheerleader of the Year: Heliocentric. I love his devotion to fouls.

MVP: Weasel, he puts in a fuckload of work into making things work, though cyber and groovy and everblue are close seconds.

Guys i love this idea! Ill have a think and put my nominations in! Does it need to be someone who is currently in the league? Ive been around for a while now and ive played some great games with coaches who sadly are no longer playing :(

Re: "Most Feared Coach" - no problems adding this if people want it. "Wizard of the Year" is different enough in scope, I think. There won't be a huge amount of disruption to the nominations already put forward if we make this change early, either. So I'll add a Most Feared Coach category tonight, unless there are any stern objections to it.

Re: "Play of the Year" vs "Match of the Year" - I am certainly open to this idea. I see pros for both...

Plays pros:
- They're shorter - easier to rip from a replay for a video
- You can contextualise their importance in a match
- You can calculate the odds of success
- Basically, there's more you can say about them in a shorter time

Matches pros:
- Matches tend to be more memorable
- They paint a fuller picture
- It feels natural to celebrate the best matches

Probably other factors too that I'm forgetting...

I'm asking for opinions on this - should we have both categories, or flat-out replace PotY with MotY?

EDIT:

Originally Posted by karandraz

Guys i love this idea! Ill have a think and put my nominations in! Does it need to be someone who is currently in the league? Ive been around for a while now and ive played some great games with coaches who sadly are no longer playing :(

You can nominate people who have retired/taken time off from the leagues, so long as they were active in 2012.

I'd prefer play to match, mainly because lunatic plays are always fun, but both would work for me too.

Play of the year: I'd nominate the freakish touchdown Read in Tooth and Claw scored on turn 8 against the 4 Colour Villains in the Divs (29/8/2012). According to samba it had a 7% chance of working even with a team re-roll - a zombie pick-up in tackle zone/dodge/short pass, caught by a wolf in a tackle zone who then escaped his Tackle marker. Beautiful. Doubly fun as I'd been failing to pick up the ball for pretty much the entire half prior to that, should've just used zombies all along.

Feared Team: Groovy's Ogres in the Gauntlin Goblet. They're utterly, utterly terrifying. Grinn's Orcs in the Divs come second, they knocked the stuffing out of me a couple of times.

Feared teamGrinn's orcs in the Open. I spent my match against them just staying out of the way. Ironically, Grinn spent so much time delaying his winning TD that I almost equalised, only to be stopped by a goblin interception.

Wizard
Can only be Corkir, for showing us mere manlings what it's all about.

Cheerleader and MVP
Jiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim, Groovy, Pres and 'Hands all seem to be everywhere all the time.

Not having BB Manager or a very good memory, I won't be nominating in every catagory, but here's mine:

Most Feared Team - Elf Harm. I generally struggle with elf types, and all the stat ups they had made things even harder. I think the two games I had against them cumulatively were a 7-2 loss with at least one my goals a big fluke.

Most Feared Player - General Zod (Groovy's freak st5 blitzer). Capable of 2d-ing Sauruses and 3d-ing skinks all by himself just messes with my plans. Even trying to kill him doesn't really succeed as with Jump-Up he can return the attention with interest.

Cheerleader/MVP of the Year - It's the community that makes the RPS DoD special so well done everyone and nominating one person is tricky, but big shout outs to Pres Weasel, Screwie, Jiiim, Cyber, Helio and Chainsaws (both the Groovy variety and the Hands variety).

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